On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:53:48PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > > > > But on the other hand, it seems that only the ASIX code will work
> > > > > right; the DM9601 and MCS7830 Kconfig is different/wrong.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not seeing the problem.
> > > >
> > > > Which configuration will be handled wrongly?
> > >
> > > Notice how only the ASIX kconfig depended on NET_ETHERNET...
> > > since MII depends on NET_ETHERNET, and (last I knew) the
> > > reverse dependencies didn't capture the complete dependency
> > > tree, selecting only MII would leave out some stuff.
> >
> > Except for one s390 net driver (I'll check why it's doing this) the
> > NET_ETHERNET option does not influence what code is being generated -
> > it's just a Kconfig-internal option allowing to disable a huge bunch
> > of drivers at once.
>
> Drivers like ... AX88xxx, DM9601, and MCS7830!! Except as
> it turns out, only the first one behaves as intended.
>
> You can tell it's a problem by the way it's inconsistent,
> regardless of the details of the problem. :)
I'm all for cleanups that make things consistent. :)
As long as we can agree that there's a difference between a problem like
a compile or runtime error and an opportunity for making things
consistent.
> - Dave
cu
Adrian
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